Shadowrun: Seattle Sprawl Digital Box Set

It’s the shadowrunning capital of the world for a reason. Seattle offers an unparalleled intersection of corporate, political, and criminal powers. This is where icons are made—like the Ancients, the Halloweeners, the Finnigan Crime Family, the Skraacha, Dante’s Inferno, Renraku Arcology, the Big Rhino, and the Alabaster Maiden. And this is where runners like Dodger, Sally Tsung, Dirk Montgomery, Jake Armitage, Twist, Kellan Colt, and James Kincaid made their names, sometimes made their fortunes, and occasionally experienced horrible losses. This is where you go to test your mettle. This is how you show you’re at the top of the heap.

A sprawl this big can’t be contained in a single book, so we made a box. Inside you’ll find:

Emerald Shadows, a book outlining the geography of the sprawl and the notable powers and locations in each district;

Ruling the Queen City, a deeper examination of the power and history of Seattle, including a look at the people who rule over the city—and the people who control them;

After spending a lot of time with this I think you're just better off buying the 2072 Seattle Sourcebook.
More info, better maps, better written, cheaper.

April 23, 2016 4:10 pm UTC

PURCHASER

That map poster is useless. It has no map markings to indicate places, neighborhoods, roads or other features.
Someone just took a google map of seattle and colored all the roads red so you can't see whats a surface road and whats a highway.
+ the cropped out whole section of seattle.

It's a total waste of time, I just dont understand why you would include a map with ZERO information?!

Dan AMay 05, 2016 12:17 am UTC

PURCHASER

I felt really dissapointed too. I bought the product because of the "deck of modular cards, a deck of cards showing maps of different types of rooms that can be combined into a never-ender variety of buildings", and I felt totally cheated when I saw 11 cards repeated 5 times each.
The page count of the entire "boxed set" may do an average soft cover book.
The no-indication of the page count in the product description is just a clue...

Rosella CMay 05, 2016 1:51 am UTC

Either the 11 cards repeating 5 times is an accidental duplication rather than the intended cards, or an amazing ripoff, (Why repeat the cards even once in a digital version? I makes no sense) Might be worth contacting the company to find out which one?

Matthew OApril 16, 2016 11:39 pm UTC

Just wondering if anyone knows, what year the box set is set in? I am see it is for 5th ed. But does the book give a history of Seattle so you could use it in earlier editions? I am just starting to DM for this system and this seems like it would be great.

Russell ZApril 18, 2016 1:31 am UTC

It's set in the "current" timeline (with up to date events for things going on in Seattle here in 5th Edition, yes). It might not be the best resource for older Seattle material (though many of the older Seattle sourcebooks are still available for sale, like "Seattle 2072," that sort of thing).

David RApril 16, 2016 4:10 am UTC

How large is the Seattle Map?

Matthäus CApril 16, 2016 1:45 pm UTC

It's a seriously well made high-res piece. The dimensions (as given by Adobe Acrobat) are 21x30in / 53x76cm.
Exported to PNG, it's a 200dpi 4200x6000 image.

It's... Very good. :)

Rosella CApril 16, 2016 12:08 am UTC

Can we get a preview of the Seattle map and modular map cards so we can see the quality level before purchase?

Jason HApril 16, 2016 3:46 am UTC

You can see the large Seattle map on the Shadowrun Tumblr. Check it out here: http://shadowrun.tumblr.com/post/142860291181/mapsoh-how-i-love-maps

Rosella CApril 16, 2016 5:44 pm UTC

Thanks! I don't suppose you have a link to a preview of the modular map cards as well?

Grok this, Chummer. Seattle's been the scene when it comes to the down and dirty of the Sixth World. Since the Awakening, its been where every runner who's any runner comes to get regular work. Sure, it's dirty and polluted, the politicians are [...]

PROS:
-The Seattle map is cool.
-The books and material are full color and have a good layout and illustrations.
CONS:
-Repeated cards: the PDF with the city map segment cards includes 55 cards, but there´re 11 diferent ones, repeated 5 times, and not [...]

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